The New Dawn (Monrovia)

Liberia: Assistant Commerce Boss Challenges Students

Assisting Commerce Minister for Trade Stephen Marvey, has urged students to remained focus on knowledge acquired over the years to improve the wellbeing of their family and other relatives.

Marvey said after completion of secondary education, students should take bore step in advancing themselves in various universities across in the country, stressing that secondary education is just the beginning of the entire learning process in the life of every educated person. The Assisting Minister, who also called on government to support the youth of Liberia to reduce level of poverty.

He said the government needs to provide jobs for every youth in the country that has completed secondary education, adding that government needs to allocate money in the national budget to youth organization that will enable them on their Academic sojourn. Mr. Marvey made these remarks when he served as guest speaker at the 29th graduation exercise of the G.W. Gibson high school on capitol bye pass.

The dux of the school Abraham Konneh, commended the guest speaker for encouraging them that the essence of going to school in the country is to be compared with individuals (and others students around the world, he said in order to become a future leader in the country you must first have secondary education. Marvey further disclosed that students coming from high school should not sit but engage themselves in some vocation.

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